87 Best Suffering Quotes

I thought I was the only one who was suffering. – Shoya Ishida

The longer the trial to which God subjects you, the greater the goodness in comforting you during the time of trial and in the exaltation after the combat. – Padre Pio

You’re going to have to go through a hell of time loops, you know. – Makise Kurisu

Life is suffering. It is hard. The world is cursed. But still, you find reasons to keep living. – Osa

Pain is life. The sharper, the more evidence of life. – Montana

The greatest act of love is to suffer for the One you love. – Padre Pio

The Lord sometimes makes you feel the weight of the cross because He knows you can bear it for His glory. – Padre Pio

When you feel the weight of the cross, look at Christ crucified - He carries it with you. – Padre Pio

As Mary offered Jesus in the temple, offer your sufferings to God - they become living hosts. – Padre Pio

Pain and suffering have come into your life, but remember pain, sorrow, suffering are but the kiss of Jesus - a sign that you have come so close to Him that He can kiss you. - Mother Teresa

You don't know what pain is. – Clarice Starling

You have to consider the possibility that God does not like you. He never wanted you. In all probability, he hates you. – Tyler Durden

Andy Dufresne - who crawled through a river of shit and came out clean on the other side. – Red

I was in the path of the tornado... I just didn't expect the storm would last as long as it has. – Andy Dufresne

The path to paradise begins in hell. – Tommy Shelby

I'm sorry there is so much pain in this story. I'm sorry it's in fragments, like a body caught in crossfire or pulled apart by force. – Offred

The world is full of pain but also full of the overcoming of it. – Commander Lawrence

Wubba lubba dub dub!

Existence is pain to a meeseeks, Jerry, and we will do anything to alleviate that pain. – Mr. Meeseeks

The stakes are real in this place, William. This is the only game in town that means anything. – The Man in Black

We are assassins. We don't have the luxury of a painless life. – Akame

This pain is the proof that I'm alive. – Vash the Stampede

For a while, I thought I was the only one who was cursed, but the whole world is under a curse. – Ashitaka

The sin of having you, a princess of the Moon, suffer the impurities of this dirty world... is mine to bear. – Inbe

This world is a bitter, dirty place... full of sadness and pain. – The Moon Queen

This world is a living hell for all living things. – Kushana

I feel a bit poorly, Jim. – Hilda

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin. – John the Savage

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery.

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

You can't make tragedies without social instability.

I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity. – Rodion Raskolnikov

Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel! – Rodion Raskolnikov

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. – Rodion Raskolnikov

The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God! – Marmeladov

If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment. – Porfiry Petrovich

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness. – Narrator

A new philosophy, a new way of life, is not given for nothing. It has to be paid dearly for and only acquired with much patience and great effort. – Narrator

Go at once, this very minute, stand at the cross-roads, bow down, first kiss the earth which you have defiled, and then bow down to all the world and say to all men aloud, 'I am a murderer!' – Sonia Marmeladov

I shall go mad, if I go on living like this. I can't go on. I can't!

He had lived through so much in his spiritual travail that the deprivation of his freedom, the slander, the suffering of all those dear to him, he accepted easily and even with joy.

And as often happens, it was not the facts that made him suffer, but the invented explanations of them.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise. – Jean Valjean

The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.

Those who do not weep, do not see.

There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. – Ishmael

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

He was a fugitive from all the plagues and catastrophes that had ever lashed mankind.

He had never longed for anything with such conviction, he had never suffered with such dignity.